CNN Presents Classroom Edition - Educator Guide

Whatever it Takes: In Pursuit of the Perfect 10

Objectives

This CNN Presents Classroom Edition: Whatever it Takes: In Pursuit of the Perfect 10 and its corresponding lessons challenge students to:

• Identify the role of an athletic coach and effective coaching styles

• Determine how sports can be a metaphor for life's difficult lessons

• Identify injuries related to specific youth sports and how athletes can prevent these injuries from occurring

• Assess the differences between "adaptive perfectionism" and "maladaptive perfectionism"

• Examine the field of sport psychology

• Ascertain how the techniques used by sport psychologists can be used to improve people's performances in athletic and nonathletic settings

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